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Most health experts agree that the UK is facing a huge increase in the number of people with diabetes. Since 1996 the number of people diagnosed has increased from 1.4 million to 2.8 million. By 2025 it is estimated that over four million people will have diabetes.

The Lightning is the 5th most popular military aircraft of all time, according to a recent survey. All those fans will be fascinated by this collection of 20 individual stories from former Lightning pilots, with tales of aerobatic displays, mid-air collisions and an unverified but probably genuine world record.

This is the captivating story of the four Raw brothers, all of whom served with the Royal Air Force. The eldest three flew during WW2 and all three died.

On 12 August 1940, during the Battle of Britain, in an engagement with Dornier Do 17s, Geoffrey Page was shot down into the English Channel, suffering severe burns. He spent much of the next two years in hospitals, undergoing plastic surgery, but recovered sufficiently to pursue an extremely distinguished war and postwar career. This eloquently written and critically acclaimed autobiography tells of his wartime exploits in the air and on the g...

It is more than 40 years since Fighters over the Desert and Fighters over Tunisia were published. Both volumes have long been out of print and collectors' items, but Christopher Shores refused to permit their reprinting until he amassed more information. Long awaited by many, if any work can be said to be comprehensive and definitive, this is it.

Andy Saunders relates the fascinating story of the recovery of this Battle of France Spitfire Mk1 from the sands of Calais during the early 1980s and its subsequent return to the UK for rebuild and restoration to flying condition. The full history of the airframe from the factory to loss, the airplanes operational history with 92 Squadron and the story of the pilots who flew it during its career are also told, as is the unfolding saga of its r...

For the first time, the macaron recipes from this most celebrated French patissier are published in English. There are 200 pages of recipes and beautiful food photography, as well as instructions for making shells and fillings.

Volger, who has been making (and eating) veggie burgers since he was a teenager, elevates the vegetarian burger to its rightful status as real food. This is a glorious collection that includes Baked Falafel Burgers, Thai Carrot Burgers and Spinach & Chickpea Burgers.

This is the perfect book for all tea-time lovers with over 100 recipes chosen by the uncrowned queen of British cookery, Marguerite Patten and is published as a tribute to and celebration of her 90th year. There are recipes for cakes, breads, biscuits, sandwiches and savouries from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales as well as recipes from teatimes around the world.

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Tapas are little dishes of food that are traditionally served with sherry in southern Spain. This book collects such recipes as salted almonds, bread with olive oil and garlic, salt cod, asparagus with 2 sauces, chicory and blue cheese, mushrooms with garlic and rosemary, aubergine puree, broad beans with ham, tortilla, pickled sardines, and more.

1940 in the skies over Britain was a time of courage, heroism and extreme danger. Many men gave their lives to keep our island free and some disappeared into the summer sky with no trace of them ever being found.

Provides a blow by blow account from the perspective of the RAF, Luftwaffe, Merchant Navy, Royal Navy and Kriegsmarine of this milestone day.

Nothing to touch the glory of the great cartoonists!...they teach the historians their trade' said the former Labor Party leader Michael Foot, a view also held by Winston Churchill. However, though many of the cartoons of international conflicts from the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars until the end of the Second World War have become iconic, very little is known about their creators. This book puts the record straight by assembling, for the ...

Written in 1956 but still relevant and thought-provoking today, this book is an absolute revelation on test flying at the time. Written with refreshing frankness and truth - which allegedly cost the author his job at the "Daily Express".

Lee puts the reader in the cockpit in a riveting account of life as a fighter pilot at the front. A humorous, dramatic and enlightening true account.

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Distant Thunder details the engrossing experiences of a helicopter pilot's tales of war told through letters that come straight from the heart. Often the author laboured well into the night after a mission still wearing the dusty flight suit which bore witness to the events he penned.

As well as being a unique and wonderfully readable cookery book, Seasonal European Dishes is written with the scrupulous attention to detail and authenticity that is the hallmark of Elisabeth Luard's cookery writing, the recipes are peppered with hundreds of fascinating anecdotes and little known facts about local history and folklore.

By drawing on hundreds of interviews with surviving veterans - many speaking for the first time - and combining these with official records, this looks at the corps d'élite of the Bomber Command.